The initial mass function of the rich young cluster NGC 1818 in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 396, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1665-1674

  Liu, Q ^a,b   De Grijs, R ^a,c   Deng, L C ^a   Hu, Y ^a,b   Baraffe, I ^d   Beaulieu, S F ^e  

^a CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d CENTRE DE RECHERCHE ASTROPHYSIQUE DE LYON   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Galaxies: star clusters; Magellanic Clouds; Stars: low mass, brown dwarfs; Stars: luminosity function, mass function; Stars: pre main sequence

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); GALAXIES; STARS;

GALAXIES: STAR CLUSTERS; INITIAL MASS; LARGE MAGELLANIC CLOUDS; LOG-NORMAL; MAGELLANIC CLOUDS; MASS FUNCTIONS; STAR: LUMINOSITY FUNCTION, MASS FUNCTION; STARS: LOW-MASS BROWN DWARFS; STARS: LUMINOSITY FUNCTION; STARS: PRE-MAIN SEQUENCE;

FUNCTIONS;

EID: 67549093207     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.14838.x     Document Type: Article

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